American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824-March 26, 1894) was an American politician, orator and statesman. He served as a U.S. Senator and Governor of Georgia. On December 7, 1887, in Washington, Alfred Holt Colquitt remarked at the Evangelical Alliance: <I believe it is the mission of the ministers today, and of Christian laymen in this land, to go out into the fields and highways and meet the enemies that are seeking to place barriers in the way of Christian civilization - to meet the foe as he comes. Religion and politics ought to be wedded like a loving pair. The spirit...

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824-May 10, 1863) was a Confederate General during the Civil War, serving under General Robert E. Lee. General Jackson's tremendous success in combat against great odds was observed in numerous battles, including the: Battle of Bull Run; Shenandoah Valley; Cross Keys; Port Republic; Seven Day's Battle; Second Battle of Bull Run; etc. When he died, General Lee exclaimed, "I have lost my right arm." As professor of philosophy and tactics at Virginia Military Institute, General Jackson once said: <When we take our meals, there is the grace. When I take a draught of water, I always...

Thomas McIntyre Cooley (January 6, 1824-September 12, 1898) was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commissioned by the legislature of Michigan to compile the state statutes in 1857. The following year he was chosen as reporter for the state Supreme Court. During his seven years in that position he edited 8 volumes of previous reports. In 1859, he became one of 3 professors at the law school of the University of Michigan, where he also was secretary and dean of the department. Thomas Cooley was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1864 and served until 1885. At that time...

George MacDonald (December 10, 1824-September 18, 1905) was a Scottish novelist and writer of children's fairy tales. His best remembered stories include: The Princess and the Goblins and The Fairy Fleet. He began his career as a Congregational minister. He took up writing and became close friends with the well-known writers of the day, John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll. Carroll first recited his stories of Alice in Wonderland to George MacDonald's children, whose delighted response convinced Carroll to publish them. In David Elginbrod, published in 1863, George MacDonald wrote: <Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde: Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God; As...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1824) in the case of Updegraph v. The Commonwealth, 11 Serg. & R. 393-394, 398- 399, 402-407 (1824), recorded the court's declaration that: <Abner Updegraph...on the 12th day of December [1821]...not having the fear of God before his eyes...contriving and intending to scandalize, and bring into disrepute, and vilify the Christian religion and the scriptures of truth, in the presence and hearing of several persons...did unlawfully, wickedly and premeditatively, despitefully and blasphemously say..."The Holy Scriptures were a mere fable: that they were a contradiction, and that although they contained a number of good things, yet they contained a...